Academy threatens YouTube — Site removes unauthorized Oscar clips — Web surfers will no longer be reliving the magic moments of the 2007 Oscarcast via YouTube. The vid-viewing site complied with a Tuesday request from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences to remove all unauthorized clips of the kudocast.

And the Oscar goes to... "The World Wide Web" — Two-thirds of Oscar.com Visitors came from International Locations on Oscar Sunday; — Significant Traffic Spikes Reported at Other Related Movie Sites — comScore Networks, a leader in measuring the digital age, today reported the results …

Stuck in traffic? — There's nothing worse than getting stuck in traffic when you have some place to go, so I'm happy to tell you about a new feature on Google Maps that can help. For more than 30 major U.S. cities, you can now see up-to-date traffic conditions to help you plan your schedule and route.

Google Maps adds real-time traffic data — Google has added real-time traffic data for several major cities to its mapping service, the company said Wednesday. — The traffic information is integrated with Google Maps and is available in more than 30 American cities, including San Francisco, Dallas, Chicago and New York.

Adobe to take Photoshop online — Hoping to get a jump on Google and other competitors, Adobe Systems plans to release a hosted version of its popular Photoshop image-editing application within six months, the company's chief executive said on Tuesday. — The new online service is part …

CompUSA Closing More Than 50 Percent of Stores — CompUSA, the computer and gadget retailer owned by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, said on Tuesday it would close more than half of its U.S. retail locations over the next two to three months to focus on top performing locations.

Exclusive: Is Spotplex a Better Digg? — A new site called Spotplex launched today that arguably sorts news in a better way than Digg does. I've been testing the service for the last couple of weeks and like what I've seen. — News stories are not submitted by users, as with Digg.

ITunes is all 'That' to indie producers — Store opens doors to low-profile videos — ITunes has cracked open to independent video producers for the first time. — Apple's digital content store on Tuesday started selling "That," a snowboarding action pic made for DVD by Forum Snowboards.

Google's Gadget Numbers Revealed — Widget developers take note. If you weren't certain the development time for a widget would be worthwhile or not the numbers are in. Google has released the daily rendering numbers of Google gadgets. To see the numbers for an individual gadget go to the Gadgets For Your Webpage directory.

A startup's best friend? Failure — From Dogster to Google, Web companies are finding that mistakes can be shortcuts to success, reports Business 2.0 Magazine. — (Business 2.0 Magazine) — Few niches crashed more spectacularly during Web 1.0 than the pet sector.

34 Reasons Why Readers Unsubscribe from Your Blog — Thanks to everyone who has added their thoughts on why they unsubscribe from a blog's RSS feed. There have been 109 comments left on that post so far and some interesting recurring themes have emerged. — I've attempted to categorize them below.

RIAA opposes new fair use bill — New bill would let customers make limited numbers of copies of copyrighted works — A new bill in the U.S. Congress aimed at protecting the fair use rights for consumers of copyright material would "legalize hacking," the Recording Industry Association of America said.

Jamil Moledina Talks GDC 2007 — In anticipation of next week's big Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, we tracked down conference executive director Jamil Moledina to discuss the evolution of the event, what to expect this year, if Phil Harrison or Shigeru Miyamoto have any surprises, and more.